the city always keeps us out from the state it's us they create those. who want to costly move their stuff every day. not just. ravens out here because she feels emergency shelters are either overbooked or unsafe but city law was designed to move these camps on. and as a phone cue she receives a visit. a . boy said we got to. get him about this by setting. up an. elvis. raven was given orders. she's running out of places to go they want everybody downtown they were ready one section. it's not going to happen we're trying to get our branch out. the door to get away from downtown they wired by downtown but six in downtown skid row. the worst place in history to be homeless downtown. if you're homeless and l.a. city laws to keep streets clear give you two choices. keep moving. on skid row. this is the only place that you can sit up a tent without the city forcing belief. but elvis is tiny homes aren't allowed here . skid row is. unlike anything else in the united states. i call it the worst manmade disaster in the u.s. hi. how are you. doing ok. andy fails r

money was found. .04 of 1% of the city. one of the richest cities in the world.you all can do this. you need to know what side of the fence you are on. you have heard from the workers. we are in a severe labor crisis. we have severe worker shortage because these wages aren't retaining workers. they are not attracting workers. the workers are being pushed out to mooutto mowoutto modesto. you are responsible. you need to bring up the wages to keep the workers. a note. we did a living wage questionnaire to all of the mayoral candidates. the next person whose most likely to become mayor, those candidates answered they are 100% behind this and behind funding nonprofits to make sure this happens. >> thank you, mr. cramer. next speaker. come on down. >> i am with the teamters 856. i want to hit two key points. the sister from hsn made a comment before she was cut off about a community discussion. that is a point i want to raise. this committee is very important. you have the ability to give voice to both sides of this argument. i am on the side of the workers. i will te

most of them living on the outskirts of the city and so the idea of the city is that people get together and they congregate and they. exchange ideas with a western city but i guess for us the russians. that kind of martha. you know something deeper about our culture we are very centralized people with some authoritarian tendencies so i wonder if that layout is ultimately going to reflection of not only our city planning but also of broader things in our culture could as we say in the paper you know number one we're not sure it matters that it's different and if it does matter we're not sure that it's as costly as it could be but if you look at the studies in america these kinds of distortions they matter they matter a lot and they have. limits are the reduced economic growth in the united states by fifty percent and so did see ability to move to cities that have the highest productivity if you can't move and you can't move to the places within those cities that afford you the opportunity to exploit your skills it stands to reason that you would be less productive whether that matters on

i'm sorry for those who were caught up in the city. it's a shock to all of us employees for visitors i know that i'm angry it's cowardly to do something like this. the driver a forty eight year old german citizen turned the gun on himself after killing several people and hearting dozens more reports in the german media suggest he was suffering from mental illness the mayor sounded a defiant note and said the city was grieving for talks and he told all of munster is mourning this horrible incident. our sympathy is with the relatives of those who were killed. we wish the injured a quick recovery. this alleged attack which struck us out of the blue is an attack on our city and we must now stand together more than ever to defeat the scourge of violence it. is a gospel that devotes commands i'm. so busy. they are coming together but never sniffs lingers after a deadly day that has painfully reminded this country of the many threats it faces . and i mentor is no cases in the germans days of nor dry invest fallen that's the state's interior mi

city. it has been a great relationship and the support we receive from the city is something that amazes me, and i stand here today representing all the people that have worked in our organization, the folks in the front office that have directed and lead our organization and all of the players that have worn the uniform that says san francisco across their chest. it is a great honor for all of us to represent this city. we feel the weight and the responsibility of this city when we stand on those base lines that are introduced every year to start a new season. it allows us to say and say it loudly, to anybody who'll listen, we are the giants. we are san francisco. we will always be san francisco. to the board of supervisors and to the mayor of san francisco, we say thank you for your recognition. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you all for being here and congratulations again and special shoutout to jack for your work with our styrofoam ban and working with the ballpark to address those particular issues. it is no surprise that you all have been chosen as an environmental leader in a numb

many many people who were in the city and. produce plays work with all their interest directly into the old tone let's say where it's really really busy place. tell us a little bit more about this area peter if you will you know where this this alleged attack took place the world removed you must that a lot of progress.

in 2003 the city adopted the precautionary principal as a general city policy. the principal was later identified as chapter 1 -- if you would like to sit down it's okay. >> okay. >> commissioner yee: it will be a couple of seconds. i'm sorry. the principals later in chapter 1 of the san francisco environment code, the key element of the precautionary principal states that every person has an equal right to a healthy and safe environment. it is mandated that our order, land be of a standard high enough that individuals in communities can live healthy, fulfilling and dignified lives. this precautionary principal is aligned with the intent of the resolution before us today. san francisco welcomes and encouraging emerging technologies but as a city we must ensure that the technologies provide net common good, measured in many ways in that they are safe and appropriate. a multibillion dollar global tech corporation utilizing publicly funded infrastructure it pays for it. it pays disproportionately little for replacing jobs to enrich themselves. it does not align with

this is so amazing to the future city. know, when this playground burnt down, it captured the imagination of our city, and so thankful for everyone who stepped up, i really want to pay mayor, ed lee, who made this a priority, here in san francisco, before he passed away, it was without his support this would not have happened at all. and so a huge, how about a round of applause for his leadership in this. you know, my wife is here today, we have been taking our three kids here to this playground of their birth, and to see it rebuilt, to see the kids back on the concrete slide is amazing, and what's also amazing, though, i think we need to recognize, what a legendary playground this is and city of san francisco. standing with some other guys earlier today also born and raised san francisco kids and we came here when we were little and remember the slide and the cardboard and getting some air off of some of the jumps. but what an amazing place this is. look, parks are the heart and soul of our city. we are all about. we have

the ground. as city administrate, unfortunately, the events of hurricane katrina happened and he was with the public utilities commission and traveled to new orleans and was with an activist who now the mayor of new orleans and started the life line council. out of that started the neighborhood empowerment network and made sure our city was resilient. when i talk about he didn't just say i have an idea, he rolled up his sleeves writing the standard operating procedures and going back to the department of public works he started the community team event and mohammad was working as the deputy director it's now part of our institution we take for granted it's government. it's his hard work and rolling up his sleeves with great deputies who had many of these events put in place. with that i think we should honor him with the impact award. i think gabe is going to figure that out. >> thank you, naoimi. naoimi and i since mid december have had the honor and i could say the privilege and pleasure of going to ev

the cities become growth and also the city's image this team will put more than five tons in the gadgets truck today anything they deem to be unsanitary. most of it will be rubbish but some of it will be people's tents and the few positions. that. it has been brought about or something. like that to get us a decision on this that. you're in a waste. that the city gives advance notice of the clean up but not everyone gets the message today that there are some unlucky ones not a. lady or ask them to. they like it because you're kidding i mean if you want a homeless person living on the street you want to live on if we sidewalk or decide one day see the value a loss leader. but the city's focus on keeping the streets clean means further instability when you're living on them. it's also one of the main reasons elvis is tiny houses a band playing to hampering operations like this. you know waits of the suburban town on the street. so we can clean the area and if you're good side it's nice safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has made a determination that those should not be on

we have six zones to clean the entire city. the three boxes on the slide are basically shows that the day shift and the swing shift our numbers are about the same in terms of over all service orders that we are getting. we are getting less at night. as the value has increased so much over time we are able to do pretty well in meeting our 48 hour service level agreement. that's our goal, especially for a day shift. you're seeing zone b at 84%, zone e at 82%. in other zones such as d in the mission we are well over 90%. if you look to the swing and night shift you will see that's where we are having troubles meeting the demand. the number of calls we've gotten during the afternoons, the evenings and the over night hours has really increased. so that's where our staffing challenge is, finding the resources available to work during those shifts. it's been a big challenge. if you look, for instance, at the night shift you will see our response rates are below 50%. so that's where we are really experiencing and having some difficultie

the city needs to use all power available to stop the cpmc proposed stopping of the unit. this is critical for the quality of care for those 17 patients and critical to address the interests o nurses who are h taking positions at davieses. beyond the issue of their obligation to do it's part by keeping the subacute unit open, there is also a need for broader solutions so again i would refer you to the proposals for action that h2j2 has shared with the supervisors and on number eight we had proposals for framework for city policy and lesion that could prevent situations like what is happening from the st. luke's subacute unit from happening. >> i have that and i did discuss that with the group when we met in advance to talk about the opportunity to propose legislation and i will talk about that at the end. >> i am one of the nurses. >> supervisor sheehy: i understand. we are going to open up the public comment. okay, that is fine. go ahead. >> good morning i am a registered nurse at st. lukes been working there 42 years and am also the chairperson of the st. luke's -- we de

guardians of the city charged with the preservation of the city jimmy lee and company my good friend my buddy dave eberle who is like the guy that sweeps up behind the elements at the zoo he makes everything seam less. we have ron ross and the san francisco history association. lilly hitchcock played by donna huggins. lilly turns 175 this year and she looks damn good. all right. the san francisco examiner calls a p.r. from making this happen for over 25 years. give him a nice hand. [applause] and now as we approach our time of 5:11 or 5:12 we pass the mic to our great city folks. our six-month mayor is say great guy, welcome to the podium mayor mark farrell, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. so first of all i want to con great late everybody on waking up this early and getting here. as i understand from lee, this is the longing running flash mob in san francisco history. 99 years that people have been coming here to celebrate this event at 5:00 in the morning on this amazing day. you know, a few things, first of all, we're here to remember the 1906 earthquak

and we would have to forward it to ace and get the city attorney involved and all that. this new process abates the majority. i don't have the number committed to memory. but the majority are abated prior to that. >> president cleaveland: are you currently conducting a routine inspection of city's warehouses to make sure there's no illegal squatting? >> xherl businesses -- ko special businesses are not -- commercial are not part of us. >> president cleaveland: what is a crisp complaint? >> that would be a commercial -- that's an old -- in the past, the chief would know better. we used to inspect some commercial building and to my knowledge, the resources we had just wasn't actionable to maintain. so, we migrated over to focusing on r-2s. chief would be better background. >> president cleaveland: i see the report on page 18 and i saw it. >> commissioner covington: commercial residential inspection we did back in the day. it became resource exhaustive for our companies to do. >> that would have been a complaint that come in for a warehouse or commercial business. in the pas

think it's essential it's essential to the city's livability the center of the city's become a growth and also the city's image this team will put more than five tons in the gadgets truck today anything they deem to be unsanitary. most of it will be rubbish but some of it will be people's tents and the few positions. that. have thought of something. like. this that. you're in a waste. that the city gives advance notice of the cleanup but not everyone gets the message and today there are so many lucky ones. when you're asked them to. they like it because repeated i mean if you want to person living on the street you want to live if we sidewalk decide to value a loss leader. but the city's focus on keeping the streets clean means further instability when you're living on them. it's also one of the main reasons elvis is tiny houses a band playing to hampering operations like this. you know way it's the suburban town on the street. and if you a good side it's nice safe conditions to live it so we basically the city has been . germination those should not be on the city streets. i'm max ka

and keep the city moving. so that has been part of the challenge is the lack of clarity and rules and the rationality and rules has made it different for us but we are going forward and connecting customers and making sure that we do get the services opened. >> all right. >> thank you. >> excuse me. i have been working in this area it seems like too much of my life. and it is confounding in that the relationship with pg&e. you laid out some of the timeline. during that time, the relationship has not always been sour. there have been ups and downs. my observation is that it seems as though those ups and downs are driven by corporate policy. and corporal policy changes overtime and the relationship changes overtime. and i find it unfortunate in regretable that the a parent policy at this point in time was to make life difficult in ways that are difficult or impossible to explain. and i would hope that pg&e has a long history in this city and there are a lot of constructive and good things that they do in this cit

were three factions in the city. it should be no prize to you mayoraler two failed attempts, the reformers quite a went out of business. [laughter] there was another camper challenge, this time for my father to boss tom. this is not in any of the books. kansas city and jackson county come as you and no come as you and know, in the late 1920's and early 1930's, passed a series of bond issues that built the city hall and the largest per capita road system in the united states outside of detroit and new york. it made harry truman's political career. but there were opponents, fiscal conservatives who oppose the experience size. one was my grandfather who, one day, before the election, come out of his house to get in his car to go to work and found that a road crew was completely blocking his access to the street. [laughter] he called city manager henry medical roy, who had been hired in his father's office with tom berg asked -- tom pendergast in attendance, and mac roy told him that he would be unable to move the crew un

we run the city's accounting and payroll services, we manage the city's debt, we pay city employees, we provide audit functions to move operations ahead, to help the mayor and board assess the efficacy of programs and help the public understand what it is the city is doing. it's important to me and to the office, it's an independent office and apolitical. whoever sits in the seat i'm luck yu had enough to hold is nominated by the mayor and confirmed by the board, it's to be independent to both, as well as a number of stakeholders around the budget and finances. and so we really, i serve and our office serves as an advisor to a whole host of stakeholders that care about the city's finances and performance. >> supervisor safai: i know we worked together on housing and you helped to convene along with the appointment of our body, it was extremely helpful we updated our inclusion housing which is set aside for private developers that have to set aside a certain amount of housing as affordable. so the work your office did was invaluable in that process. and having gone through my first bud

they are assistance with all of the other city departments. they help identify problems, talk to residents to get a good understanding of what is going on in the neighborhood. then they coordinate with public works with the other city departments as needed to make sure that any coordination efforts are happening and that we are absolutely eaching every critic -- identifying every critical item that needs to be cleaned. it's an expansive effort. we continue to think out of the box in terms of how we can improve the cleanliness. it's a tough battle and we continue to try to make progress. with that i'll be happy to answer any questions. larry stringer is here to provide any further clarification you may have. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. colleagues what you just heard is the example of our very first budget priority hearing. this is the first in a series of hearings regarding those issues facing our city that the board has identified as priorities for this year's budget cycle. as you can see from the numbers this is absolutely a priority. so t

team was in the city to speak to doctors and local. people from the white helmets told us about the use of chemical weapons but we saw no sign of that we started pouring water over the people but they seemed to be ok walked away without any help .

again, this really focuses on the northeast quadrant of the city. we have concentrations in chinatown and the south of market area. again, along the geary corridor and the western part of the city. and there is also concentrations in the various southeastern part of the city as well. now that we've completed the maps, an important question is how could they be useful to inform safety traffic improvements. so it includes addressing concerns, how can we overlay that over the city as projects advance and ensure there is particular attention to the needs of people with disabilities and seniors in those areas? and then broadly considering the segments throughout the city for prioritization as well. again, patrick golier is going to talk about an mta program that is going to be doing that. but before we move to that, i wanted to give a brief highlight of a survey we conducted at the end of 2016 that helped this analysis. we administered it online, in spanish, english and chinese. we were really pleased to receive results nearly 300 responses to the survey.

cities today are legitimately where all the action is. ties is where we confront the day-to-day policy challenges we face around public health and public safety, cities is where we leverage economic opportunities, cities are the true laboratories of innovation and experimentation in pointing the way forward to future with endless possibilities. cities are the blocking backs for the state and the federal government and better understanding how changes to our population including especially demographic change affect our democracy. for our distinguished guest this is familiar territory. a few texans in modern era or ever have been closely associated with the broad conversation around urban economics and urban governance. as former four-term mayor of san antonio, first hispanic american to lead a major u.s. city and the former secretary of the u.s. department of housing and urban development. mr. cisneros has been president of national league of cities, after exiting the federal government a little more than 20 years ago he became the presiden

here in the city, we always rise to the challenge. o so together when city government, labor, business, and the non-profit community work collaboratively. we know anything is possible. including zero emissions by 2050. so today, let's join together and celebrate together. today we are making history. and so at that point i would like to invite debbie and any city department heads who are here and members of the board of supervisors to join on stage as we sign this commitment and this directive to make sure that we are a carbon neutral city here in the city of san francisco. thank you, everyone, for being here. [applause] [applause] >> thank you, everyone. >> you hear me but i hear you still. i hear you. we've got a few -- a little while in the program. we're almost there for the schmoozing part. so thank you mayor farrell for your leadership and for making this ground breaking commitment and frankly for your belief in me and your confidence in our city and my colleagues that we will get this done. because when cities lead, states and n

it's pretty consistent throughout the city. as this program goes forward at the end of this fiscal year we are doing evaluations to see if we need to switch from monthly to biweekly or biweekly to monthly. one of the other initiatives that we've done to try to address the problem is our tenderloin clean program. we had some significant issues with keeping it clean. we've developed a workforce development program and a non-profit partnership for staff to come and clean the sidewalks early in the morning from i think it's from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. so four hours a day, monday through friday. really they are doing manuel street cleaning; sweeping up litter, collecting large debris items and if they are identifying areas where they need to call in public work staff that's what they are doing. if they say urine or feces on the street they will reach out and call the public works staff and then we'll come in and our staff will come in and do the steaming as needed. >> when did this start? >> approximately 18 months. it started at the

i was the writer on the map that peter showed of nature in the city. i'm very excited about this resolution and this idea. one of the things i've learned as a writer on this subject is that one thing nature needs to persist is connecttivety. plants and animals need each other in relationship and they also need space across space -- to be able to move across space to go from one place to another to renew their genetic inheritance of others with of their own kind and to rest and reproduce. so what are some of the things in the way of saving nature today, which is under seeing in a dire way, connectivity. the lack of connectivity among human institutions is one of the big problems. so we have all of these incredible achievements in san francisco to bring banative species to integrate new exotic species and to create more and more beautiful nature that characterize our beautiful city.

folks can barely afford to live in the city. folks have to deal with this problem and we have been dealing with this for over a year. the process gets dragged out. one excuse after another. we are asking you for your support today. like the speakers before me said, if we can move to the full board with a recommendation, that would be ideal. worse case scenario. please move this forward and give the folks in this room an opportunity to receive the increases they need to live in san francisco. we ask you, please, thank you. >> next speaker. >> good morning. thanks for scheduling this hearing. i am david canon i am the director for 10 to 1. we have been work on this issue for years. we can't continue to wait. we have waited too long for this to be held up. we represent some of the lowest paid workers delivering the lowest paid workers. mental health, substance abuse, housing. they cannot higher people at $15 per hour. they cannot retain and recruit people. they cannot live on $30,000. they have to pay for their own healthcare and th

use your car for the tour it's a classic light blue. riband citytour starts with instructions so what do you think is the seat ok. so you can then go on then they get you see if you would definitely take some getting used to just ok you're in reverse. and another important piece of advice when driving intervent gives serious gas. we're headed to the other side of the l. the river tonight stops. for driving convoy style. sebastian talks us to the site and makes sure i don't get lost in. the cobblestones are an attraction in and of themselves. they're all right here we have these horrible cobble starts and then a trial date you can really get the feeling you're back in the former east. you know we're talking. and we wrap up this war with that by now so mill your view be a story accent or as seen from the of justice great. who so did you like it didn't i didn't get a good shaking but it was a lot of fun and as a reward for not crashing my car i even get an almost offended east german driver's license that's just a one page check in without our weekly

bond is one of several sources of funding for the city. thank you for making your presentation. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> any public comment? seeing none, move on to the next item. >> item 7, opportunity for committee members to comment or act on any matters within the committee's jurisdiction. item one, the fiscal year 2017/2018 goboc work initiatives, several listed. start with the benchmarking report, go to the website redesign, public satisfaction survey, upcoming issuances from public finance. >> good morning, committee chair, members of the committee. mark dela rosa, here with the san francisco fellow and team member, alice duncan graves, giving you a very brief overview of the results of the benchmarking study which we issued to the committee a little over a week ago, and most of the materials from the slides are actually in your packet as a memorandum. let me introduce now alice. >> thank you, mark. good morning. so, conducted the analysis, to fill the oversight roles and activities. ben marked against five peer jurisdiction, on

and can the city sue itself? >> yes. >> commissioner richards: well, can the arts -- is there another avenue besides it stays? >> commission, kate stacey from the city attorney's office. it has been done before. it is very infrequently that one arm of the city sues another arm of the city. there may be members of the public that may be interested in suing which may take a petition of a writ of mandate which is a pretty typical doing to sue the city. >> commissioner richards: can an individual have standing? somebody really feels strongly about this in the public, could they, because they weren't a party to any of this, actually step in and then do a -- file a court case? >> commissioner, kate stacey in the city attorney's office. typically, there's a requirement to exhaust your administrative remedies, which means the individual who needs to sue needs to have appeared before the governmental body and expressed the argument. there are certainly other legal vehicles where that may not be a requirement. i can't give

delivery man ligi has arrived at a residential address in the city. for the thirty five year old apartments like these are an affordable depending on the number of parcels he delivers he earns about eight hundred to one thousand euros a month he also gets a rent subsidy and has no problem putting food on the table. he can provide better for his family than when he worked in a factory in his home province. this is a nice customer who thanks him for the parcel. there. are you i also have difficult customers i have a very patient and that explain everything with a smile. ligi is one of several million chinese workers who are allowed to live and work in shanghai but have to remain registered in their home region that puts him at a disadvantage in terms of assessing public services like schooling his sixteen year old son lives with his grandparents in the provinces it's a high price for the dream of a better life they rarely get to see each other ligi is hoping that his son can study in shanghai after he leaves school but he needs good grades. shanghai attr

more people into the city not only a tourist but a. someone business as i don't know also how keep the most agitated within the city do you think that kind of rationale is going to work especially given the. kind of times that male even so what i think. this is. a fascinating historical moment and it reminds me of. new york when there was a man named robert moses who they say that he's the only man in the twentieth century who you can see from the moon see his creations on earth and he really carved up new york city and he built a lot of it he built lincoln center he did a lot with the central park but he also destroyed a lot and he destroyed and he cut through neighborhoods particularly poor neighborhoods and avoided the rich neighborhoods and so his movement restructuring a city. you know for better or worse must goes in a point where it needs to restructure and so how do you do those things when you have all the millions and millions of people who have different ideas you have to listen to them and i think the. robert moses was a wom

the streets of san francisco. nearly 31,000 cars were broken into in 2017 in our city, which is a crazy number. a total of 25% increase over the year before. and let me say i'm going to be the first to tell everybody and to make sure the residents of san francisco know that we believe that this is completely unacceptable. the status quo on our streets is completely unacceptable, and we have to do things better. our city cannot continue to thrive if people are afraid to leave their car unattended when they're here to live, when they're here to work, when they're here to shop or visit any of our amazing attractions here in san francisco. as i said many times before, parking your car in san francisco should not be a game of roulette. and i will say that since becoming mayor and previously as a member of the board of supervisors, i was the first one -- one of the first people to point out the problem and to acknowledge the problem, though, and i think it's critically important. and also to acknowledge the work that our police department has done in response to this epidemic that we are seeing and we

the city transit system like the city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and

these are tools within the city's control. the fact that actual units completed and built went down doesn't have anything to do with you folks or dbi or whoever's sitting in room 200 or 202 or the housing action coalition or the yimby's in this room. that's a financial investment decision. so however folks in the media intentionally or naively make it sound like the city is doing all kinds of bad things, in fact the city is doing more and continues to do more within its control and the market does weird things sometimes. i also want to point out what's interesting in your housing inventory highlights is the region. if i'm not mistaken, three counties accounted for 82% of all the housing production, 82%: alameda, santa clara, and san francisco. san francisco's a city-county, and most of the development in santa clara, san jose, and most in alameda are some core cities like oakland and the waterfront. so you're talking 83%, and we get folks coming up here, telling you you're not doing enough? this is a good news, folks. let's kee